Important: In Excel for Microsoft 365 and Excel 2021, Power View is removed on October 12, 2021. As an alternative, you can use the interactive visual experience provided by Power BI Desktop, which you can download for free. You can also easily Import Excel workbooks into Power BI Desktop.
Here are the required or recommended versions of operating systems, browsers, and other applications for, and Power View in Microsoft Excel 2013, and Power View, a feature of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013.
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System Requirements for Power View in Excel 2013
Excel editions that enable Power View
Excel 2013 is installed with Office Professional Plus 2013.
Silverlight
For Excel 2013, Power View requires Microsoft Silverlight 5.
System Requirements for Power View in SharePoint Server 2013
SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP 1) editions that enable Power View
For a list of editions that enable Power View, see the Reporting Services section in Features Supported by the Editions of SQL Server 2012 .
Operating systems and browsers that support Power View
For current information regarding Power View and the supported browser versions, see the Power View Browser Requirements section of Planning for Reporting Services Browser Support.
SharePoint versions that support Power View
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 Enterprise Edition is required.
Silverlight
For SQL Server 2012 SP 1, Power View requires Microsoft Silverlight 5.
